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Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)

Things – T94518

Germanic Tribeswoman Breastfeeding a Child by the Fire in Front of a Cottage (Germani in pellibus cubantes)

In C. Julii Caesaris quae extant, London: Jacob (I) Tonson (publisher), [by mid-March] 1712 (Warsaw, BUW, St.Dr.), no 41

no 41 (61 of 135 in-Urus figures)

Details

Matrices

Andries van Buysen (printmaker), Germanic Tribeswoman Breastfeeding a Child by the Fire in Front of a Cottage (state I/II) (Tonson)

Actors

Andries van Buysen (ca 1674 - 1747 / fl. 1698 - 1747) printmaker : 1703 - 1712
George Stepney (30 July 1663 - 15 September 1707) dedicatee

Places

London production place : [by mid-March] 1712

Design

Andries van Buysen (printmaker), Germanic Tribeswoman Breastfeeding a Child by the Fire in Front of a Cottage (state I/II) (Tonson) Part of Set of plates for Caesar's Commentarii in folio (Tonson 1712) ◼

In-Urus interactions

Expert view

Iconography description

Narrative

Customs of the Germanic tribes (Commentarii de bello Gallico, VI, 21-25)

Functional context

Corpus Caesarianum (Cosmographies, chorographies and chronicles)

Credits

Created by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2026-06-13 08:59)

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2026-06-13 18:17)